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To Bacon, perhaps, the imagination seems to be too much the organ of make-believe, imaging things which never were on land or under the sea.
Kindergarten play takes the children where they love to be, into the world of "make-believe."
The stage is a world of make-believe, and it is the business of the lady of sixty to give you the impression that she is a sweet young thing of seventeen.
He would have liked to invent something, get her to make-believe with him that some passage of a romantic or critical kind had originally occurred.
He has been out in the world and done strenuous things, while I stayed at home and played at make-believe.
The sparkle had gone out of their meetings, which began to have an air of make-believe youth about them.
He said it to himself that it was in play, and repeated it over and over to make sure, unaware that madness is ever prone to express itself in make-believe and play.
They blew dust up in the air, to pretend it was smoke, and there was the most terrible make-believe battle you ever heard of.
Most of us foiled humans learn to play the game of make-believe and to find such consolation as we may therein.
Perhaps Katie knew that countries of make-believe are sensitive things, that it does not do to admit you know them for that.
It was as if her craft of make-believe was the thing which had been able to carry her toward the shore of reality.
It did not show itself at once, but afterward it seemed to Katie that the next day marked the beginning of Ann's retreat on the bridge of make-believe.
Isn't it awfully, terribly touching to see how even such a poor, incoherent make-believe of a 'message' from Mother has more power to calm him than anything we could do with our whole hearts?
Although in this age of all but universal hypocrisy and make-believe, every man has at least two fashions of one countenance, it is in dress principally that most men are most unlike themselves.
Since he was an actor, nothing was so real to him, nothing so thrilling, as the make-believe.
And with this bright light in her face, which soon became to her the candle in that dark room left so far behind, she fared away to the magic land of beautiful make-believe.
If, I say, we would do this, could life continue to be the thing of shows and make-believe it so often is?
"That may be one down there in the field now," continued Dorothy, enjoying her make-believe.
And indeed this it might have turned out to be had he but approached it by a discreet circuit through the simplest feminine essentials of negative make-believe.
"See how wise he looks," she said, as she put the make-believe glasses on the Eagle's nose.
If ever his mind roamed again to the world of make-believe, that ring would jerk him back to facts.
Don't you worship images, and take off and put on garments at your prayers, and kneel down in a make-believe, profane way: and don't you turn everything into vain ceremonies?
She bounded up with a cry of terror; it may be that she had all along hoped that all was make-believe.
She was thinking, "with her gay, tender soul, and her delight in make-believe and joyous picnics."
And she acknowledged with a shiver of revolt that the creature's fascination for her was not altogether a matter of make-believe.
I have often wished to myself, only a make-believe wish, you know, not a real wish, if you understand what I mean, for of course I know it's impossible.
Their driver, a boy of about eighteen, sat on a tiny make-believe seat almost over the traces.
He was a handsome child with an almost uncanny charm of manner, and a gift of make-believe that made his days one long excitement.
There was no make-believe about these combats; they meant at least serious wounds, even when they did not mean death.
The presence of these latter convinced an awed population that its Festival was a real Festival, and not a local make-believe.
In the clever little book "Molly Make-Believe" the girl pretends at first that she loves the man, and later on comes to love him to distraction, and she lived happy ever after, too.
The make-believe then crept along in the high grass till near enough to the quietly feeding animals to put an arrow through one or more.
Oh, I could see what you thought of me, and I longed to tell you it was only make-believe, but I didn't dare!
Far too noble to injure a clerk, the chief was also too clear-sighted to be deceived by any make-believe.
When a child, one of his favorite make-believe games was to pretend that he was a famous woman singer.
Frank threw his cigar away and moved nearer to her, holding out his hand with an odd combination of "make-believe" and real pleading in his voice.
There was no make-believe about him, and he was never one who liked discussion for discussion's sake.
I had some delicious moments of femininity too (such as no woman can resist), until it struck me suddenly that in all this make-believe we were making love to each other again.
And I could feel her heart beating through her dress and hear the husky rattle in her throat, and then all our poor little game of make-believe broke down utterly.
Well, Miss Rosemary, seeing that it's to be called "Make-Believe," why not make-believe as it's written already?
I carried the former merely as a make-believe, to keep up my character as a hunter; for the same reason we took with us a brace of dogs.
Each day about three o'clock all work was put aside by the artists, for this was the time they went to visit "The Land of Make-Believe."
Only, if they are as hungry as I am, I don't know how they will like that make-believe part.
There is no use in their putting on airs; the make-believe gentleman and lady cannot look like the genuine article.
It was all make-believe to me, but it was dead earnest to the dog, and he did his part as faithfully as any soldier who ever wore a uniform.
"You ought to have seen that monkey's face when he bit on those make-believe cherries on Flossie's hat!"
If you make paper things to eat, like cake or cookies or anything like that, please only make-believe to eat them, for they are bad for the digestion if you really chew them.
I wanted to fill their minds so full of fun and make-believe that they would have to forget about their poor little bodies.
If you bite you are serious, if you bite you are in love; but that is elegant make-believe.
You see, after people got over teasing him about that make-believe wedding, he got to thinking about her.
She's just a make-believe of something she wasn't born into being and don't know how to make herself.
I think we can make it awfully interesting, being real enough, so it isn't just make-believe.
She was a nervous maiden, however, and owing to her gift of make-believe, would people the forest with strange shadows bred of her own thoughts and fancies.
Replied the daughter, taking a hand in that weird game of "make-believe" which the majority of women play between themselves.
All her life when Mary's world did not measure up to her expectations, she had been in the habit of making a world of her own; a beautiful make-believe place that held all her heart's desires.
The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to him make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.
Make-believe was so real to him that during a meal of it you could see him getting rounder.
Wendy insisted on their doing this, and it had to be a real rest even though the meal was make-believe.
He was not a real uncle, but only a make-believe one, to satisfy those who objected to assisted immigrants, and who wished to be assured against having to support Guido, and others like him.
Then how does it come that so few of us care to read the biographies of real people, which ought to be all the more interesting because they are true instead of make-believe?
Quite a novel experience, and quite pleasant after the long period of make-believe in England.
Perhaps you will keep it as a rainbow memory, a visualization of the make-believe country where anything is possible.
I have known Kinney for a year, and I have learned that his "make-believe" is always innocent.
Perhaps she thought the calf would mind her, since Sue had been the make-believe wild animal trainer in the circus.
All the wooden boxes, that had been used as cages for the make-believe wild animals, had been taken out.
And when the little girl found that the Bear did no harm, but only growled in a make-believe, jolly fashion, she decided to make friends with him.
Sometimes there would be a whole troop of Indians, some real and some make-believe, that would be engaged by the seller of the medicine.
"We saw a real elephant in a real circus, and we had a make-believe circus with a pretend elephant in it."
I'm only going to be make-believe asleep, and of course a doll, who can pretend to talk, can make-believe wake me up as easy as anything, when I'm only make-believe asleep.
"Oh, you were playing make-believe," said Mother Brown, for well she knew the different games the children made up.
My Doll can eat make-believe things when I have a play party, but we won't pretend that now.
"I know what we can do," said Dick to Herbert, after they had sailed some little make-believe ships in the brook, while Carlo lay in the grass on the bank.
There is good make-believe as well as bad; and one must necessarily imagine and make-believe in order to will.
Nothing more was said about the ghost for several days, and even Russ and Rose seemed to forget there was such a make-believe chap.
Under these petty regulations of conduct you were not yourself at all, only a make-believe.
She would furnish us with what we wanted from her wardrobe; and she would be the entertaining visitor in our make-believe house.
In this way we impose on ourselves, disguising our real sentiments by a thin veil of make-believe.
And then, as the musicians began to play softly, Lucile stepped out from behind a make-believe stone in the meadow beside a pretend brook and began to sing her first song.
Rushing out he fairly slid across the smooth boards, in front of the make-believe barn, and he grabbed the pony's bridle in one hand.
After the first shock of real experience that old make-believe side of things lost all attraction for me.
"I guess for the spider we'll get a make-believe one, from the five-and-ten-cent store," said Miss Earle, the teacher.
It required only a little make-believe on her part to indicate that this was some strange boy whom she had never seen before.
These dry details of what had actually happened were a relief, she told herself, from all that make-believe.
He would know that the deception would be soon discovered and that it would not do for him to fail to recognize it for what it was, when the make-believe was in his hands.
Afterward the make-believe giant went back to the circus, much happier than he had been at first.
I'm going hunting, Cornelia, hunting for Molly Make-Believe; and what's more, I'm going to find her if it takes me all the rest of my natural life!
It is right in a measure, since that sincerity, that absence of make-believe, in the literary creation is a prime necessity; but it is not sufficient.
Through the long afternoon they lived in a fairy world of freedom, of dreams and make-believe.
Into the sweet land of make-believe we would wander, leaving the sad old world behind us for a time, and you should be Princes and Princesses, and know Love.
At that time her favorite "make-believe" had been to play at going for a music lesson, with a carefully modeled roll of brown paper suspended by a string from her fingers.
The mature imagination interprets the facts; this kind of imagination escapes from the facts into a world of make-believe, where the tyranny and cause and effect is no longer felt.
They did not feel very happy, though Bunny tried to get Sue to play some "make-believe" games.
"Oh, no, I only meant a make-believe circus, like we played once before," said the little boy.
Then followed a small portion of beef to each man, we called this chicken in our glorious game of make-believe.
Cried Mun Bun in a jolly voice, and he pulled on the reins, thinking what fun it was really to drive, and not make-believe, as he and the others had done with Alexis.
She and the other children loved the water, and, living so near Rainbow River as they did, they were used to paddling about, playing with make-believe boats and toys like that.
I have my petty troubles and little make-believe worries, just enough of them to make me realize I have them licked, and to remind me I must not let up on my mastery of them.
That one girl can cook real, or make-believe, sausages, but we don't need to have them, 'less you want to, Aunt Lu!
"Let's make-believe I'm the captain, and you're the cook," said Bunny to his sister after a while.
Psychologically, the most interesting characteristic of animal, as of human, play is what is called the "make-believe" state of mind which enters into it.